MY NAME IS HAPPY – Youth Jury Award – Creative Documentary Competition
Screening of the award-winning film "My Name is Happy" by Ayşe Toprak and Nick Read
"This film stirred up great emotions with its strong, universal and essential message: the fight against violence towards women. Its images and its story moved us. The structure of the film, which alternates between shots of very different types but remarkably well edited, allows us to experience, as closely as possible, the incredible twists and turns that this family experiences."
Sunday 19 March
20:15
Grütli - Salle Langlois
sold out - in case of cancellation, tickets will be put back on sale before the screening
This debat is preceded by the movie:
Competition - Creative documentaries
My Name is Happy
By Ayşe Toprak & Nick Read
Mutlu, a Kurdish teenager from South East Turkey, is destined for a career in music following her appearance on a televised singing competition. On the eve of the final, she is shot by a man she had rejected. Mutlu survives but with life-changing injuries. A few years later, while still recovering, she is affected by a new tragedy. "My Name is Happy" is an emotionally gripping film about a patriarchal Turkish society plagued by feminicide, from the point of view of the survivors and the women seeking justice.
Section Compétition - Documentaire de création
Original language(s) Turkish
Subtitle(s) English & French
ActivismeFemmes*Proche & Moyen-Orient
- Director(s)
- Ayşe Toprak & Nick Read
World sales
- Autlook Filmsales
Production
- October Films
Cinematographer
- Meryem Yavuz
Music
- Smith & Elms
Sound
- Oguzhan Akalin
Editor
- Anna Price
- Duration
- 82'
- Year
- 2022
- Production country
- United Kingdom
- Status
- Swiss Premiere
